---
title: The Oahu warriors were continually reinforced by fresh, unwearied men. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The Oahu warriors were continually reinforced by fresh, unwearied men. Who acts: fresh unwearied men. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/14/189/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Historical Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/) / [The Alapa Regiment](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/14/) / 189

# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 189

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Oahu warriors were continually reinforced by fresh, unwearied men.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** fresh unwearied men · **What happens:** reinforce · **To what, where:** Oahu warriors

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fresh unwearied men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:14:189
# text = The Oahu warriors were continually reinforced by fresh, unwearied men.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	reinforced	reinforce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	unwearied	unwearied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reinforce** | past · passive | fresh unwearied men | the Oahu warriors |  |  |  | continually *property* | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 188](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/14/188/)
- next →: [sentence 190](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/14/190/)
- ↑ back to [The Alapa Regiment](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/14/)